Adjustable street sign



Nov. 20, 1928. 1,692,234

W. K. VOORHEES ADJUSTABLE STREET SIGN Filled Aug. 9, 1926 ST W Patented Nov. 20, 1928.

- UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER VOORHEES, OF CEDAR FALLS, IOWA, ASSIGNOR TO STANDARDMANUFAG- TUBING COMPANY, OF CEDAR FALLS, IOWA. V

ADJUSTABLE STREET SIGN.

Application filed August 9, 1926. Serial No. 128,100.

and to prevent longitudinal displacements or sidewise tilting of a supported sign.

means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which Fig.1 is an elevation of superposed.streetsigns as connected and secured together in a relatively angular adjustment, parts being shown inv vertical axial section, and other parts broken away. Fig. 2 1s a similar elevation 01' S3161 elements-but showingthe elements as, separated and placed in alinement vertically. Fig. 3 is a top plan of the elements shown in said Fig. 1. I

The street signs 1 and 7 are alike in body shape but may be made of other shapes than that shown, but in practice the uppermost sign 1 differs from thesign 7 thereunder in not having a cylindrical boss 8 on top, but

may have instead any ornamental finial as shown in Fig. 1, at 2.

Each sign has a medial depending and integral boss as at 3 or 11 having an axial downwardly opening cylindrical socket 10 or 15, to receive in the former case an annularly grooved cylindrical boss 8 and in the latter integral with an upper sign land the boss 12 being integral with a socket-member 16 below the sign 7 'Each socket part 3 and 11 has interiorly threaded radial holes placed ninety degrees apart circumterentially to receive set-screws 5 and 6 whose inner ends engage the annual grooves 9 and 13respectively in both bosses 8 and 12 which fit said sockets rotatably. It will be seen that the sign 1 may be thus sethe desired adjustment, the means for adj ust-' This object I have accomplished by the claim as new,

case alike boss 12, the former boss 3 being cured together to prevent longitudinal displacement of one sign from the other, and i that the set-screws being positioned at ninety degrees apart circumferentially, the upper sign cannot tilt in any direction on the other it slightly loosened. I The annular groove in each case permits unlimited angular adjusts ments of one sign upon the other circumferentially and rotationally.

To support the lowermost sign 7, as above stated, its depending socket 11 ismounted upon a similar boss 12, and the boss 12 is projected upwardly from a wider downwardly opening socket-member 16 whose cylindrical hollow may lit over thecylindrical upper end 6 of a supporting tube 17, and be secured thereto by means of one or more set-screws 18.

' These signs are preferably double-faced to be seen from the street or the side-walk. The set-screws indicated by the numeral 14 are set in the same angularrelation to each other in the socket-member 11, as above described with the set-screws 5 and 6 in the socket-memher 3.

Having described my invention, what I and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

In combination, street signs superposed and separately connected for desired angular relations, the upper sign having an imper- 0 for'ate integral depending socket projection having interiorly threaded holes at a radial angle from each other, the lower sign having an upwardly directed boss inserted in and to it the said socket projection and having an 35' annular groove alined with said threaded holes, set-screws mounted in said holes to terminally engage said groove, and the lower sign having a flat top annular part around the base or said upward projection upon whose top the lower rim of said socket projection is sealingly seated, whereby the upper sign maybe rotated upon said annular part I j and secured at a desired angle upon said lower sign with its joint connection to the lower sign sealed against entrance of moistureor other elements.

In testimony whereof I aifix my'signature.

WALTER K. vooRHEEs. 

